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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.27 avg rating — 215,649 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 190,950 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 55,834 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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4.01 avg rating — 22,418 ratings
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Euler: The Master of Us All
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
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4.22 avg rating — 4,030 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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The Music of the Primes
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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3.95 avg rating — 21,147 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 112,759 ratings
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DNA: The Secret of Life
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4.11 avg rating — 2,815 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,162 ratings
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
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4.10 avg rating — 2,968 ratings
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The Carbon Almanac: It's Not Too Late
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4.22 avg rating — 349 ratings
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The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
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4.09 avg rating — 6,059 ratings
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Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
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4.22 avg rating — 2,950 ratings
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My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdős
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4.21 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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4.07 avg rating — 16,940 ratings
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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3.91 avg rating — 7,293 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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4.14 avg rating — 9,025 ratings
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Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
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3.95 avg rating — 1,382 ratings
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The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
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4.18 avg rating — 1,507 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.21 avg rating — 10,712 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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4.13 avg rating — 40,331 ratings
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A History of π
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3.94 avg rating — 2,843 ratings
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Competing on Analytics
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3.69 avg rating — 1,598 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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3.89 avg rating — 67,311 ratings
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 26,481 ratings
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
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4.10 avg rating — 3,094 ratings
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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4.06 avg rating — 34,223 ratings
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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
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3.89 avg rating — 1,523 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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4.09 avg rating — 41,466 ratings
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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3.78 avg rating — 10,987 ratings
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Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
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3.99 avg rating — 14,268 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 28,745 ratings
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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3.94 avg rating — 30,570 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 25,194 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 28,589 ratings
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The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
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3.98 avg rating — 1,384 ratings
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e: the Story of a Number
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3.93 avg rating — 2,163 ratings
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The Colossal Book of Mathematics
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4.32 avg rating — 468 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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4.10 avg rating — 101,692 ratings
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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.19 avg rating — 30,512 ratings
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
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4.03 avg rating — 8,863 ratings
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The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
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3.56 avg rating — 48 ratings
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How the Mind Works
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3.99 avg rating — 20,988 ratings
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
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3.90 avg rating — 1,184 ratings
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
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3.80 avg rating — 6,235 ratings
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
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3.90 avg rating — 24,179 ratings
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
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4.23 avg rating — 13,461 ratings
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Gödel's Proof
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4.19 avg rating — 5,532 ratings
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Men of Mathematics by E. T. Bell (2008) Hardcover
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4.10 avg rating — 2,072 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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4.34 avg rating — 39,108 ratings
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
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3.94 avg rating — 5,216 ratings
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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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3.71 avg rating — 7,249 ratings
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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4.16 avg rating — 29,407 ratings
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The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
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4.20 avg rating — 603 ratings
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The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture
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4.06 avg rating — 4,237 ratings
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An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1
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3.95 avg rating — 1,487 ratings
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An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
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4.23 avg rating — 444 ratings
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How to Prove It: A Structured Approach
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4.30 avg rating — 973 ratings
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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4.20 avg rating — 5,984 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,048 ratings
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The Undercover Economist
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3.81 avg rating — 29,318 ratings
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A New Kind of Science
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells
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Babbitt
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The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics
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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
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I Am a Strange Loop
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The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics
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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
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Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception
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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
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4.14 avg rating — 5,876 ratings
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From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
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4.06 avg rating — 6,816 ratings
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Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
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3.91 avg rating — 776 ratings
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The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
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Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
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Who Banged the Big Bang!: Trans-Scientific Mysteries: Decoded, Simplified
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A Mathematician's Apology
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The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn
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A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel And Einstein
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Three Roads To Quantum Gravity
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Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour
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Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction
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The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
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Archimedes : What Did He Do Besides Cry Eureka?
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The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
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Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
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Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and EverythingElse
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians
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God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
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